Bibliograph

The Crimson Cowboys, the remarkable odyssey of the 1931 Claflin-Emerson Expedition, Jerry D. Spangler & James M. Aton

Type

Label

The Crimson Cowboys, the remarkable odyssey of the 1931 Claflin-Emerson Expedition, Jerry D. Spangler & James M. Aton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-279) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Crimson Cowboys

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1048941179

Responsibility statement

Jerry D. Spangler & James M. Aton

Sub title

the remarkable odyssey of the 1931 Claflin-Emerson Expedition

Summary

"In 1931 a group from Harvard University's Peabody Museum accomplished something that had never been attempted in the history of American archaeology: a six-week, four-hundred-mile horseback survey of Fremont prehistoric sites through some of the West's most rugged terrain. The expedition was successful, but a report on the findings was never completed. What should have been one of the great archaeological stories in American history was relegated to boxes and files in the basement of the Peabody Museum at Harvard. Now, based on over a thousand pages of documents (field journals, correspondence, and receipts) and over four hundred photographs, this book recounts the remarkable day-to-day adventures of this crew of one professor, five students, and three Utah guides who braved heat, fatigue, and the dangerous canyon wilderness to reveal vestiges of the Fremont culture in the Tavaputs Plateau and Uinta Basin areas. To better tell this story, authors Spangler and Aton undertook extensive fieldwork to confirm the sites; their recent photographs and those of the original expedition are shared on these pages. This engaging narrative situates the 1931 survey and its discoveries within the history of American archaeology"--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

An elephantine endeavor : preparations for the 1931 field season -- The adventure begins : probing the East Tavaputs Plateau -- Divide and conquer : the exploration of Willow Creek -- Castles in the sky : the Hill Creek excavations -- Into the thick of it : Nine Mile Canyon -- Unnoticed treasures : the expedition to Range Creek Canyon -- Wildest desolation : exploring the Green River's west bank -- Dirty shovels : Devil's Playground and Rasmussen Cave -- Out with a whimper : the Uinta Basin investigations -- Scholars and cowboys : afterwards

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